Herald Blogs

Isaac's winds uncover a 1923 shipwreck in Alabama

Here’s a sight I’d go
out of my way to see if I were on a road trip: the remains of a schooner that
ran aground off Mobile Bay,
Alabama, nearly 90 years ago and was
recently exposed by Hurricane Isaac.

It’s an interesting
story. The schooner, Rachel, was blown onto the sand by a tropical storm. It
was too far ashore to get it back into the water, so it was left there, on a long,
thin spit of land that runs west from Gulf
Shores near the mouth of Mobile Bay,
on Fort Morgan Beach. Through the years, storm winds have uncovered it, then
recovered it. Now, the old shipwreck is drawing a lot of attention, the
Associated Press says. Read the full story here.